but you must have got yourself to the bar in a conscious state, so just ignore what happened after. You’re good.

only if drunk a pint at a time, sorry

all beers count, including the alcohol-free ones.

essentially, a thing can only be conscious if it can drink beer with you in a bar. It’s a pretty simple test.

that’s awful, and needless. Wouldn’t you and the BBC would have had a strong defence against defamation under the Honest Opinion section of the 2013 Act?
Any media lawyers on here? I’m not, but have had to think like one from time to time.

I recall, at school in the 1970s, boys using chalk to draw swastikas on the coats of German exchange students. It was a dreadful thing to do, but there was at least a loathing of fascism rather than a nostalgia for it.

what, and leave him struggling on his £1m a year salary for his Mail column? (In the meantime, I’m sorry for your loss.)

fabulous series. The closing song, Something On My Mind, is gorgeous (and it’s worth a listen to the original, by Karen Dalton)

got a horrible feeling that’s somewhere in the UK

would she include Boris Johnson, born in the USA? Would Disraeli, born in the UK, count as a ‘native’? I’m not sure she’s thought this through …

worth remembering that if you lost a loved one to Covid at the height of the pandemic you may have had little or no knowledge of how they died. It was a remote business, and comms from beleaguered hospital staff were sparse. The dead just vanished. Death certificates delayed for weeks.

I doubt it, but we’re thinking hard about them.

I really, really hope they’re training up as Morris Dancers. Their moves suggest it.

that’s not true. If that was my priority at the ballot box I’d have voted Reform (and it wasn’t so I didn’t)

if they keep adding more decades to it they’ll end up sending my great great etc Huguenot grandma back to France, via Belfast. Then me to Watford, which I fled for lack of trees.

Just checked it out too. Wow. May also send some ironing over the moor.

he made apostrophes, too, and is up there watching, and waiting, with a gift of endless land, once we’ve worked out how to use them.

dealing with sick kids and DV victims? You need more than a high viz jacket to do that without making a horrible mess of it.